Your government will maintain control! (Part 2)

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Your government will maintain control! (Part 2)

Bad news everyone, remember a little while ago some kid posted a thread about how the government is running a "drill" where they are putting all their important personnel in bunkers around the country?

Well that all went down today, and it turns out that very soon a huge asteroid is coming extremely close to us

If I did your homework for you, then you might pass your class without learning how to write a program like this. Then you might graduate and get your degree without learning how to write a program like this. You might become a professional programmer without knowing how to write a program like this. Someday you might work on a project with me without knowing how to write a program like this. Then I would have to do you serious bodily harm. - Jack Klein

Both objects have stable orbits. The tendency seems to be in fact for the asteroid to move further away from earth (you can check this with the ephemeris calculation). The approximation is certainly due to the relative positions, since both objects have different revolution times and velocity.

In the light of this new evidence that there is actually a table of things that are flying around in Space waiting to destroy us, I agree with SlyMaelstrom. We need to work on that laser immediately! Even if we have to power down all of Japan to fire it.